Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion

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Explores for the first time the social, cultural and medical history of human corpses and burials comparatively Offers insight into an international selection of epidemics from the fourteenth century to the present day  Reveals findings of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and public health experts

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Christos Lynteris is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK, and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. He is the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (Palgrave, 2012) and Ethnographic Plague (Palgrave, 2016).  Nicholas H. A. Evans is a Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK. His work focuses on understanding the comparative and historical nature of doubt and uncertainty, and he was a member (2014-17) of the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project at the University of Cambridge.

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